Originally Posted by
Bah Humbug
Yes, and that freedom you champion in your last line is exactly what you also hate about it (your whole rant about e-bikes and whatnot). You're trading a well-defined equipment restriction you hate for a lack of restriction you appear to also not like, with a side dose of everything else being unrestricted as well, if only by utter lack of enforcement. Strava allows (functionally) motor vehicles to compete with bicycles to compete with e-bikes and runners. Dopers to compete with clean athletes. And "digitalEPO". And someone else riding with your Garmin. All with zero consequences other than your ride getting flagged so you have to do it better next time.
I don't think I said hate.
When you have no rules, no rules are broken. I have not seen the Strava leader board segments (the big attempts, 3-4+ min one) that are tainted. Sure it takes some work to flag things, but it is free. I flag things. Every segment counts to someone, but it is the number of attempts that indicates how many people it is important to.
Originally Posted by
Bah Humbug
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For something that doesn't affect your kid, you are awfully emotionally invested in this.
I'm interested in the conversation if that is what you mean by emotional. And my kid is good, but I don't feel he was robbed one way or the other, while I think others were. I see something, call something (or not). If you are emotional over this stuff you can't have 1,000+ hours (paid) to determine what is fair. I do. So I care, but more so technically.